By Nick Szechenyi Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. Here Nick Szechenyi concisely assesses prospects for Japan’s political stability, economic strategy and foreign policy in…
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One Step Closer: Japan’s Election & Political Stability – Part 2
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By Yuko Nakano A landslide victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Representatives (Lower House) election in Japan was not a mandate for the LDP but more of a rejection of the Democratic Party of Japan…
Reluctant Realists
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By Malcolm Cook and Andrew Shearer Ideological supporters of Julia Gillard, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of Japan must be ruing what has happened to their supposedly progressive leaders. Supporters of John Howard, George W. Bush and Junichiro Koizumi…